Amazon.comās Whole Foods Market doesnāt want to be forced to let workers wear āBlack Lives Matterā masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if itās forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high courtās June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case āprovides a clear roadmapā to throw out the NLRBās complaint.
The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.
Either employees should be allowed to wear personal accessories to express themselves, or they should not. How do you define what is and is not political?
Also, this articleās vague, but āno slogans, logos, or advertising except for Whole Foods brandingā is Whole Foodsās official dress code. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/whole-foods-black-lives-matter-mask.aspx
The problem with all of these things is always unequal enforcement. For example if the store allowed an employee to wear a thin blue line mask, and fired another employee for a BLM mask
Except the store didnāt do that
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Itās was a dismissed court caseā¦ What are you talking about āwe donāt knowā court records are a thing. You can get them directly by submitting a FOIA request.
Or just reading the new articles that spawned from the case.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-whole-foods-workers-lawsuit-over-black-lives-matter-masks-2023-01-23/
Thereās no evidence that it was unfairly applied. And if you have such evidence Iām sure you can submit it to the plaintiffās lawyers and theyāll set you up with a sweet payday.
Would ALSO cover āthin blue lineā as well btwā¦ Technically it would cover the proper American flag as wellā¦
Up to the business. If they donāt want political statements or and statement made at work, I can understand it.
That just means that employers can push their own political agendas and suppress alternatives.
āEmployees may not wear pins of a political nature, such as expressing support for Joe Biden. Wearing a pin expressing support for Donald Trump is acceptable because that is not political.ā
Like I said, it either has to be all or nothing - allow self expression or do not. Allowing self expression only if the company agrees with the expression is essentially compelled speech.
Damn straight
Agreed, if I ran a grocery store chain Iād just have the employees wear uniforms with no personal expression.
At the end of the day itās the businessās right to set whatever policy they want though. If the government decides employees have a constitutionally protected right to wear whatever they want to wear to work, weāre gonna see a lot of crazy bullshit.
Would it be a bad thing? I think with some sensible exceptions it would be a very good thing to permit free expression as the default.